On 25/08/05, Frank Bax wrote:

At 04:01 AM 8/25/05, Gerald Humphreys wrote:

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Is anyone from Canada in this list.

Since July 1, there have been posts from at least a dozen different email addresses that end in .ca!

Ah, sorry , that means nothing. I had a friend in Australia who had an e-mail account that ended in .uk It only means that the account is held on a server registered (and set up of course) in a particular country. The actual account holder could be anywhere in the world. :-) I could set up an account with Yahoo in Australia and get and address that ended as .co.au but I'm in the UK... -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

Kevanf1 wrote:

Ah, sorry , that means nothing. I had a friend in Australia who had an e-mail account that ended in .uk It only means that the account is held on a server registered (and set up of course) in a particular country.

The server doesn't have to be set up or hosted in the country that the TLD "belongs" to. My e-mail address ends in .com and I have never been in the US. The server that the domain is hosted on sits in the room next to my office. Hans

On Thu August 25 2005 2:08 pm, Kevanf1 wrote:

Isn't the .com designation a special case?  I know it's generally attributed to the US but it was this way because it was the first domain.  Or am I wrong in this assumption? well, go made me wonder, so I did a GOOGLE search and found this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain

History When generic top-level domains were first implemented, in January 1985, there were six: * .com * .edu * .gov * .net * .org * .mil While .net was not listed in the original RFC document describing the domain name system, it was added by the time the first group of names were implemented. The .com, .net, and .org gTLDs, despite their original different uses, are now in practice open for use by anybody for any purpose. In November 1988, another gTLD was introduced, .int. This gTLD was introduced in response to NATO's request for a domain name which adequately reflected its character as an international organization. It is also used for some Internet infrastructure databases, such as .ip6.int, the IPv6 equivalent of .in-addr.arpa. However, in May 2000, the Internet Architecture Board proposed to close the .int domain to new infrastructure databases. All future such databases would be created in .arpa (a legacy of the pre-TLD system), and existing ones would move to .arpa wherever feasible. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc

On 25/08/05, Hans du Plooy wrote:

Kevanf1 wrote:

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Isn't the .com designation a special case? I know it's generally attributed to the US but it was this way because it was the first domain. Or am I wrong in this assumption?

Even if it was *meant* that the domain be hosted in the country that the TLD specify, I don't see any way to prevent anyone from hosting whatever TLD where ever they see fit. The beauty of DNS....

Getting a TLD from a different country registered in your name, there's some room for complicating things. But if I buy a .co.za here, I can take it anywhere I wish. A large number of South African companies are hosting their websites in the US and UK, because bandwidth is so much cheaper.

Hans

Doh!!! Of course. This is something that I knew about back in the mists of time and had totally slipped my memory. I recall now (vaguely) reading in a computing magazine about 6 or 7 years ago about somebody asking about the possibility of using a specific countries domain. I think it was one of the lesser known ones at the time. It was for a specific business purpose and the domain tied in with the business name purely in an aesthetic manner. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR

Mike, On Friday 26 August 2005 07:57, Mike wrote:

On August 26, 2005 6:45 am, Kevanf1 wrote:

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On 25/08/05, Hans du Plooy wrote:

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I recall the .tv name belonging to a small tropical island, and that selling domains was now a major source of income.

Tuvalu. An island country that will cease to exist in the not-too-distant future... For a while, KBHK, channel 44 in San Francisco, was using kbhk.tv, but they no longer advertise that domain, instead using upn44.com. Both addresses show the same content, but the .tv domain is not mentioned on-air any more. Randall Schulz

James Knott wrote: Randall R Schulz wrote:

Tuvalu. An island country that will cease to exist in the not-too-distant future...

Is it going to sink into the ocean or something??? More or less, yes. It will actually be because of the ocean rising, but the effect will be the same.

At 08:31 AM 8/25/05, Gerald Humphreys wrote:

From: "Fergus Wilde"

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On Thursday 25 August 2005 09:01, Gerald Humphreys wrote:

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Hi

Is anyone from Canada in this list. There must be some aboot, eh?

huh

http://www.coolcanuckaward.ca/joe_canadian.htm

Ouen, mais je suis au SaiGon, mu+o+`i na(m ro^`i. Did i get the French part right? [Ya (Canux, too), but i'm in SighGone, ten years now.] Canadian World Domination :: http://cwd.ptbcanadian.com ;) cheers, andi -- AD (Andi) Marshall eM: admarshall@gmail.com Web: http://h0lug.sourceforge.net Zone: ICT (IndoChina Time, GMT/UTC+7) Post: HoChiMinh City (ex/or SaiGon), VietNam On 8/26/05, Charles philip Chan wrote:

On 25 Aug 2005, gerald.humphreys@gmail.com wrote:

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Is anyone from Canada in this list.

I am from Canada. I live in Toronto.

Charles

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